About the Authors

Michael C. Melnychuk

mmel@u.washington.edu

Current address: School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

David W. Welch

Affiliation Kintama Research Corporation, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Carl J. Walters

Affiliation Department of Zoology and Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

David Welch is the president of Kintama Research. Kintama Research is an environmental consultancy that designed and deployed large parts of the current array. Their operating costs partly come from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation was not directly involved in the study design, analysis, or writing of the paper, nor the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM DWW CW. Performed the experiments: MM DWW. Analyzed the data: MM. Wrote the paper: MM DWW CW.